Meet the team

 

Dr. Angela de Bruin (she/her)

Angela is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of York and the project leader of MultiAge. She completed her BA in Linguistics and MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2013 she moved to Edinburgh, where she completed her PhD in Psychology. Between 2016 and 2019, she was working as a postdoctoral researcher and Marie Curie Fellow at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Spain). In 2019, she started working at the University of York. Her research interests include bilingualism, language switching, language production, executive control, and cognitive ageing.

 

 

Dr. Zlatomira (Zlati) Ilchovska (she/her)

Zlati is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology, University of York. She is also a part-time Teaching Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham. She graduated from her PhD at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Her research interests include bi-/multilingualism as a possible cognitive/brain protective life-long experience, brain functioning/structure in dementia and healthy aging, cognitive control, and language control. She is also very passionate about Open Scholarship and doing and teaching better science.

 

 

Dr. Farah Nazir (she/her)

Farah completed her UG degree in English language, as well as an MA and PhD (2015) in Linguistics at the University of Manchester. Her PhD focused on the grammar of the Mirpuri-Pahari-Pothwari language and she continues to work on the grammar, as well as promoting the language and identity of Azad Kashmiris/Kashmiris/Pakistanis via her writing, literature and language festivals. She is currently a Research Project Manager at the University of York, supporting MultiAge. Prior to this role, Farah was a lecturer in Linguistics at Newcastle University (2021-2023) and Lecturer in Speech and Language Science at Leeds Beckett University (2016-2017). She took an academic break between 2017-2021, in which she was an editor and received a Postgraduate Certificate in Speech and Language science at City, University of London (2018). Farah’s research interests are in the grammar of Pahari-Pothwari, South Asian languages, multilingualism, language naming practices, identity and attitudes.